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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFederal judge rips into Supreme Court for giving rogue cops near-total immunity to lawsuits.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/federal-judge-rips-into-supreme-court-for-giving-rogue-cops-near-total-immunity-to-lawsuits/On Tuesday, in a police misconduct case, Mississippi federal judge Carlton Reeves reluctantly granted qualified immunity to the officer involved but not before a blistering opinion dozens of pages long, slamming the legal status quo and demanding that the Supreme Court step in to stop giving police officers near-total immunity from lawsuits for misconduct on the job.
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Thankfully, Jamison left the stop with his life, wrote Reeves, who is himself Black. Too many others have not. The Constitution says everyone is entitled to equal protection of the law even at the hands of law enforcement. Over the decades, however, judges have invented a legal doctrine to protect law enforcement officers from having to face any consequences for wrongdoing.
Under the current standard of qualified immunity, an officer cannot be sued for any action in the course of their duties that has not explicitly been ruled a violation of constitutional rights by a prior court and in practice, that makes these lawsuits virtually impossible. The Supreme Court declined to take up a case re-examining the issue earlier this year.
This Court is required to apply the law as stated by the Supreme Court, wrote Reeves, granting the immunity. But let us not be fooled by legal jargon. Immunity is not exoneration. And the harm in this case to one man sheds light on the harm done to the nation by this manufactured doctrine. As the Fourth Circuit concluded, This has to stop.
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Federal judge rips into Supreme Court for giving rogue cops near-total immunity to lawsuits. (Original Post)
alwaysinasnit
Aug 2020
OP
Kick - here's the decision. It's a legal document saying Black Lives Matter
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2020
#5
Faux pas
(14,657 posts)1. Kickin' with disgust!
hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)2. Radical activist judges legislating from the bench!
Well, now that I think about it, their projecting onto liberals everything they do themselves goes back a long time.
RainCaster
(10,853 posts)3. Courts have misplaced the value of our lives
Kill a cop? 25 years minimum, often life
Beat an infant to death? 2-3 years
Abuse a teen to suicide? 12-18 months
Cop kills a civilian? No time, often forced to reinstate by police union.
DSandra
(999 posts)4. Three emoticons describe this country
and
muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)5. Kick - here's the decision. It's a legal document saying Black Lives Matter
and making it clear that the Supreme Court has a lot of responsibility for the deaths of Black people at the hands of police who knew the SC had given them immunity.